Samoa’S Oldest
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Inhabitant.
Robert Easthope Dead.
From Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Dec. 30.
MR. ROBERT EASTHOPE, a native of Cumberland, England, died at Apia on December 16. He was 86 years of age.
Mr. Easthope came to the Islands in the early seventies, in charge of a small schooner, trading in the Tongan Group for the old D.H. and P.G., for which firm he worked for 16 years.
In 1894 he left Tonga and settled in Apia, running various hotels, but he suf fered heavy losses by fire. He was very popular as a hotel owner, owing to his genial character and his generosity, and always extended a helping hand to those in trouble. For 15 years he was em ployed in the Customs Department of the Administration, which he left a short time ago owing to advanced age.
The funeral of the deceased, who was the oldest British settler of Western Samoa, was attended by only a few per sonal friends.